Word: rancor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With increasing rancor, the White House argued through the week that it would be unfair for the Senate to proceed with a trial in which the Senators made up the rules as they went along. On Friday, when every last one of the 45 Democrats voted for a plan that does precisely that, lawyer Greg Craig said tersely that the White House "respected" the Senate's decision...
...look forward to a better year in Washington, one in which civility prevails over rancor and scandal finally takes a backseat to the important issues that the citizens who voted in Tuesday's elections want to face...
...then another son die during childbirth unattended by doctors or trained nurses; he left the Followers in 1981, after deciding to seek medical help for a back injury. Briggs supports the Oregon exemption-repeal drive, but despite being shunned by his former community, he bears no discernible rancor. "They're still believing in a faith, so there's no blame for them," he says. "Their children died, and they allowed it to happen because of a belief that they still have. That takes away the blame. It's only when you no longer have that belief that all the sudden...
...group of well-meaning men met in the German town of Regensburg. Their topic was Martin Luther's ideas about justification by faith, rancor over which was fast splitting Western Christianity in two. Could justification, which all saw as the precondition of salvation, be influenced by human effort, or was it, as Luther had insisted, out of mortal hands? The Regensburg conferees, representing the Roman Catholic Church and the new Protestantism, produced language on the issue they thought might mend the rift...
...refuge and anxiety. But home, 742 North Evergreen Terrace, is where the show's heart is, where everyone's despair is muted by familial love. Homer (whom the writers hold in a sort of amazed contempt) bumbles into some egregious fix. Marge fusses and copes. Lisa sublimates her rancor by playing her sax. And Bart is...Bart...